My Hundred Guns

Author : Jason Jones
Publisher : L&V Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780991852215

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My Hundred Guns by Jason Jones Pdf

In My Hundred Guns, Jason Jones takes us on a highly personal journey through the world of firearms, concentrating on the classic era of military and civilian rifles, shotguns, and handguns. With his own rich collection as a touchstone (spoiler: it’s more like 150 guns), Jones explores the history and evolution of modern firearms, and the pleasures of owning, restoring, maintaining, and recreationally shooting them. Mauser, Lee-Enfield, Colt, Browning, Garand, Tokarev, Mannlicher, Schmidt-Rubin, Carcano, Savage, Glock, Kel-Tec … the major names and designs are touched on in this witty, well-informed, somewhat off-kilter pilgrimage. Jones also examines the guiding ideals of gun design and manufacture; the “Zen of firearms” and their maintenance; “gun guys & gals”; guns as pop-culture icons; and contemporary gun-control debates. Illustrated with over 100 images, My Hundred Guns features a wide range of resources, from books and quotes about firearms, to today’s online communities of gun aficionados. Links throughout take readers to online videos from “Lyudmila & Vasily’s Shooting Adventures,” wherein the author and his range companion, Sherry, shoot the classics for your viewing pleasure. My Hundred Guns is a unique, colorful, and entertaining account of the world of modern firearms, and one person’s (peaceful) obsession with them. Jason Jones is a writer, educator, and photographer based in western Canada.

Author : Brian McDonald
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0452279240

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My Father's Gun by Brian McDonald Pdf

In this powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen, Brian McDonald chronicles a hundred years of dedication, disillusion, heroism, and tragedy behind the blue wall of silence that separates a cop from the rest of the world. His grandfather, Thomas Skelly, entered the department in 1893, when the NYPD was little more than a brutal gang of organized enforcers and Tammany Hall a corrupt political machine that could make or break an honest cop's career. His father Frank's career would span World War II through the 1960s, taking him from street cop to squad commander of the Forty-first Precinct. Better known as "Fort Apache", it was a place from which few cops emerged whole. His brother Frank McDonald, Jr., went on to become a decorated officer, waging an undercover war on drugs and crime. From turn-of-the-century Brooklyn to the South Bronx in the 1970s to the bedroom communities of upstate New York, My Father's Gun combines a rare and intimate family story with turbulent social history.

Author : Outlet,Outlet Book Company Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517003155

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One Hundred Great Guns by Outlet,Outlet Book Company Staff Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548836

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brig.-Gen. C. D. Baker-Carr
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121919

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From Chauffeur to Brigadier by Brig.-Gen. C. D. Baker-Carr Pdf

Originally published in 1930, these are the remarkable memoirs of Brigadier General Christopher D'Arcy Bloomfield Saltern Baker-Carr (1878-1949), a British Army staff officer who went on to rise through the ranks to become an important military commander during World War I. His account begins in August 1914 with his departure for the front in France and concludes four years later with his experiences at his last headquarters, situated in a small town in northern France, Caudry. “It was my unique privilege during the Great War to be closely associated with the development and organisation of the most important defensive weapon, the machine gun, and of the most important offensive weapon, the tank. “Today, perhaps, it will seem incredible that the High Command failed to appreciate the true value of the machine gun and the tank in the early stages of their development. It will seem even more incredible that, at a later period, it was necessary to scheme and struggle against official lukewarmness, at times almost indistinguishable from hostility, in order to secure the increase in the numbers of these arms, which, as was evident to everybody else, had proved themselves to be the greatest preservers of life yet discovered. “In the following pages I have endeavoured to set down an account of the difficulties encountered, of failures and successes, of high hopes brought to the ground by lack of faith and vision, of the ultimate recognition at long last, of the superiority of machinery and metal over beef and brawn. “Much of what I have written, especially in the earlier portions of the book, is, of necessity, a personal narrative, and I have described events and occurrences as I, myself, saw them.”—Brig.-Gen. C. D. Baker-Carr

Author : Merrill Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:886192907

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One Hundred Great Guns by Merrill Lindsay Pdf

Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : GENT:900000101959

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Through the Dark Continent Or The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean by Henry Morton Stanley Pdf

Author : Nathan Muncaster
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426940613

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The Spirit of Cinco De Mayo by Nathan Muncaster Pdf

In the 1860s a turbulent and battered Mexico fought for its survival against a French invasion. For a moment in time, the world order as we know it today was in question. The nascent United States, an independent Mexico, Europe the worlds balance of power hung in the balance in a chaotic swirl of plots and intrigues.Yet from this struggle was born a deep national pride and sense of confidence as Mexico, too long a nation taken for granted, rose to the challenge and united in heroic resistance. Follow the action as the interests of Mexicans, Confederates, Unionists, French, and English collide. Emperors scheme and flail, soldiers fight and die, nations clash and in the vortex, one young boy follows his heart to defend his country and become a man.

Author : E. M. Lewis
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573707384

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The Gun Show by E. M. Lewis Pdf

In The Gun Show, award-winning playwright E. M. Lewis tells the story of America’s relationship with guns through the prism of her own personal experiences. From a farming community in rural Oregon to the big cities of Los Angeles and New York, an actor shares Ms. Lewis’s unique perspective and true stories about America’s most dangerous pastime as if they were his or her own, with brutal honesty and poignant humor. Leaning neither right nor left, The Gun Show jumps into the middle of the gun control debate and asks, “Can we have a conversation about this?” The solo version of the play requires only a single actor. The role was conceived for a man to play, but you may cast a woman or non-binary actor in this role if desired. In the duo version of the play, the actual playwright – E. M. Lewis – sits out in the audience, and the actor playing the Playwright occasionally interacts with her, as indicated in the script. (The duo version of the play is only available for licensing by special request, depending upon the availability of Ms. Lewis to participate.)

Author : Military Service Institution of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : PRNC:32101049986019

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Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States by Military Service Institution of the United States Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Gatling guns
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU56779429

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The Gatling Gun, for Service Ashore and Afloat by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112109806221

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Outlook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark M. McMillin
Publisher : Hephaestus
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780983817987

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Ill Winds Blowing Across a Troubled Sea by Mark M. McMillin Pdf

In the early 1600’s, with Dutch power and prestige on the rise, the Dutch form the world’s first publicly-traded corporation whose purpose is to break Portugal’s trade monopoly in the Far East. Led by the mysterious and ruthless Gentlemen Seventeen, the Company has its own armies, its own ships and has the power to wage war, annex territory and make laws. In the New World life is better than fair for Mary - until grim misfortune finds her. A freakish wave during a monstrous storm off the coast of Florida sweeps her overboard and she is lost. Mary’s plucky, protégé Elizabeth - headstrong, full of Spanish fire and raw ambition, but also very young - assumes command. With prospects dwindling in the West Indies following Mary’s death, Elizabeth pledges Mary’s ships and men to the Company and agrees to sail to the Spice Islands in the East Indies for nutmeg, mace, cloves and pepper - cargo more valuable than gold. When Elizabeth exceeds her authority and ventures to Portuguese-held Macau, she is introduced to a powerful Chinese merchant named Féng Wú - and to the plentiful opium served liberally at the House of a Thousand Pleasures. When Elizabeth is later betrayed a ship is lost and the crew is slaughtered. As Elizabeth falters Mary, having survived her misfortunes, returns. When Mary learns that the Company has seized her ships and men because of Elizabeth’s foolishness, she must agree to sail into war alongside the Dutch to free them. Once she fulfills her obligations to the Company, Mary will sail on to Macau where she will introduce herself to the men who murdered her crew... “… [P]aced like an adventure movie, filled with sea battles, colorful bit players, and double crosses … a rousing, sprawling yarn about two indefatigable pirate women.” - Kirkus Reviews

Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433066603774

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The Young Lieutenant by Oliver Optic Pdf

Author : Theodore Burr Gates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : YALE:39002071561394

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The "Ulster Guard" (20th N. Y. State Militia) and the War of the Rebellion by Theodore Burr Gates Pdf